About Melissa Errico
Melissa Errico is an actress and vocalist who has appeared in television, film, and stage, will join the cast of Billions, an upcoming Wall Street drama written and produced by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean's Thirteen, Runaway Jury, Runner Runner) and writer Andrew Ross Sorkin (Too Big to Fail). Melissa Errico has starred on Broadway, on network television and film and is an accomplished recording artist and musical concert performer. While she is best known for her highly-acclaimed work on Broadway, she is unique in that she has throughout her career played many non-musical roles in plays by Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Wally Shawn, to name a few.She is a graduate of Yale University where she performed in Chekhov's Three Sisters with Ed Norton and Alessandro Nivola. In recent years she has increasingly been cast in strong dramatic roles on television and film. This year, she played the recurring role of Catherine on Stephen Soderbergh's Cinemax show The Knick, and has appeared in guest arcs on Blue Bloods and the Good Wife. Her Broadway credits include starring roles in My Fair Lady, Dracula, White Christmas, High Society, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and Amour for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award. She starred in Stephen Sondheim's Passion and His Sunday in the Park With George. She has released three studio albums: Blue Like That (EMI Records) produced by Arif Mardin, Legrand Affair (Ghostlight) produced by Phil Ramone, and Lullabies and Wildflowers (VMG/Universal Records) produced by Rob Mathes. She tours with symphonies around the world.Melissa Errico was a 2003 Tony nominee for Best Leading Actress in a musical for Michel Legrand's wistful and wittily romantic Broadway debut, "Amour". In 2005, she recorded an album, with Michel Legrand at the piano and arranging, produced by Phil Ramone. This will be Melissa's second solo studio album, her first being "Blue Like That", which was produced by Arif Mardin for Capitol Records EMI. In 2005, she can be seen in the film, Loverboy (2005) (Sundance/ Cannes), directed by Kevin Bacon, with Kyra Sedgwick, Sandra Bullock and Campbell Scott. During the 2004-2005 Broadway season, Melissa starred on Broadway in "Dracula", after appearing in two off-Broadway hit revivals non-musical and musical: Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon" with Lili Taylor and "Finian's Rainbow" with Malcolm Gets (recorded on Ghostlight Records) in 2004.Melissa is a graduate of Yale University, with a BA in Art History and Philosophy. She made her critically-acclaimed Broadway debut at Circle in the Square in "Anna Karenina", for which she withdrew from the Yale Graduate School of Acting, Her professional career began during her freshman year at Yale University, when, at 18, she landed the lead in the Premier National Touring Company of "Les Miserables". Her theater credits grew rapidly after graduation with "Anna Karenina", followed that same year by an acclaimed performance as "Eliza Doolittle" in the Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady" (opposite Richard Chamberlain), a role she reprised, triumphantly, in 2003 at The Hollywood Bowl with John Lithgow and Roger Daltrey and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other Broadway credits: Cole Porter's "High Society", Michel Legrand's 2002 "Amour, Dracula". After a season as "Alex Bartoli" in the CBS television series, C.P.W. (1995), Melissa made an enormous splash with New York audiences and critics, winning raves for her silly and sexy turn as the ...